Library Person
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer of labyrinthine short fictions on infinity, time, memory, and language.
Argentine writer of labyrinthine short fictions on infinity, time, memory, and language.
Works in the Library
Jorge Luis Borges STORY 1940
A magician sets out to dream a man into being, then discovers that he too is another's dream.
FORM MEMORY
Jorge Luis Borges STORY 1941
The universe imagined as a total library containing every possible book of a fixed length.
NUMBER LANGUAGE SPACE
Jorge Luis Borges STORY 1941
A society governed ever more totally by an infinite lottery, until chance administers every event.
NUMBER FORM
Jorge Luis Borges STORY 1940
The encyclopedia of an invented world slowly begins to overwrite reality itself.
LANGUAGE FORM MEMORY